SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wall Street Crash Of 1929, Crop Rotation, Neoliberalism
29 Mar 2017
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American journalist and author, worked at several newspapers in nyc. Wrote the driver (1922) but the people"s pottage (1953) most widely read. Conservative in political views argued against the new deal" (what was it?) during the. Great depression (1929-39) and against bailing out farmers. The story of the rise of a successful entrepreneur, a financial speculator, a master profit maker (213) His power keeps growing as he builds an empire around the great midwestern railway. He expands his means to accumulate (monetary) wealth by buying competitors, buying up shares in many different companies. This story is narrated by coxey", an undercover journalist who befriends galt. Galt is a mysterious man with almost supernatural powers that keep growing: he is a. The person galt", is what really lies behind the corporate veil" (great midwestern railway). Part jay gould, part donald trump is he a captain of industry, or an archetypical.
